Curious how to apply turn-taking across taxa? Look no further! In our preprint, we present a toolkit on how to annotate data, to then assess if a species has similar turn-taking to humans or not! @filipaabreu.bsky.social @kaylakolff.bsky.social @monkeyologist.bsky.social

EcoEvoRxiv@ecoevorxiv.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Standardizing turn-taking metrics: A methodological toolkit for data annotation across species and taxa. DOI: doi.org/10.32942/X2R...

🚨New animal linguistics paper🚨 Together with @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social, we tried to finally answer this question: Do titi monkeys have complex syntactic skills? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The As and Bs of titi monkey linguistics: why emotional communication is not the enemy

The alarm call sequences of titi monkeys (genera Plecturocebus, Callicebus and Cheracebus) have sparked important debates over whether they exhibit parallels with human language. Some researchers con...

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Amazing work of my colleague Jolinde for wrangling all the data and making some stunning figures in the process! + interesting results as well!

Jolinde Vlaeyen@jolindevlaeyen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

My first PhD paper is published! 🎉 We compared how wild bonobo and chimpanzee infants (0-5.5y) become independent from their mothers. Here is the open-access link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧵(1/5)

New Paper out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B! 🎉 Sequence organization of mother–infant interactions in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild. See the thread below for a quick explanation, and check out the paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Sequence organization of mother–infant interactions in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in the wild | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Sequence organization is a fundamental feature of human communication, shaping our interactions. This organization underlies interactions with and without language, appears early in human development ...

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🚨New in @science.org🚨 With Simon Townsend (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social) and Martin Surbeck, we have investigated whether wild bonobos can combine calls in complex combinations, similar to how humans combine words into sentences 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceResearch #AnimalCommunication

Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos

Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum ...

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And... We are up and running! We are thrilled to announce the creation of the Ethics, Diversity and Inclusivity group of the EFP! 🥳 We aim to discuss and implement short-, medium- and long-term actions to mediate EDI issues in primatology. If you want to join, email us at edi4efp(at)gmail.com!